238. #gingid him#, renews his youth; comp. 184/259: a rare word, perhaps
only here.
241-249. ‘Nos quoque cum prisci serpentis fraude revicti, | Virus
contrahimus, urimur et facibus, | Haec est luxuria quae fert odium vel
et iram, | Aut etiam nimia est aeris auaricia,’ T.
241, 242 were no doubt originally couplets, perhaps, Alle we atter
dragen | of ure eldere misdeden || ðe broken drigtinnes sonde | ðurg ðe
neddres onde: comp. 40/192, 193. #eldere# seems to have been suggested
by prisci.